Thread: movie "This is England"

Fantastic! I just wore a t-shirt that said 'Sod the poll tax'. I wanted to go to the big demo in Trafalgar Square, but at 16 was about a year too young. In Liverpool, there was over 50% non-payment, and not much less in many other areas. The courts were so clogged up it became unworkable. No wonder so many Tories gave her the boot at the end!

The Poll tax was introduced to ensure that local government tax was unaffordable in poor areas. The idea was that voters would blame the local government and vote them out and the conservatives in. A civil service consultation was held by the conservatives first about the various different ways of taxing for local government. They concluded that all ways had their good and bad points, but the poll tax was a really poor way, and was...

> JP wrote: KaliBaby wrote: that is just terrible! was high unemployment the main reason people disliked Margaret Thatcher? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwnkFlVRCZc *dancing in chair*

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Something to do with dogs getting less bones due to BSE control measures.

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> Konstantin wrote: KaliBaby wrote: that is just terrible! was high unemployment the main reason people disliked Margaret Thatcher? Partly. She was seen as abandoning anyone with disadvantages. Hospitals were closed to cut costs, benefits were cut, they closed coal mines but paid more to import coal, mental health care was cut and ill people were left to become homeless. Some people were unsafe to be out, and there were a lot of cases of...

> Going to prison taking on a horrendous new aspect 0_o

> Not seen the film, but I was 17 when the '80s started, so here's a few memories. As I was approaching school leaving age, we were continually reminded that unemployment was nearing 1 million. In the run up to the '79 general election, the conservatives put up billboard posters with a picture of a dole queue stretching off in to the distance and the words "Labour isn't working", a pun on the then...

> KaliBaby wrote: that is just terrible! was high unemployment the main reason people disliked Margaret Thatcher? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwnkFlVRCZc